Are you frustrated by water meal taking over your pond? Does you pond look ugly and green? Searching for a way to eradicate water meal from your pond or lake?
In this video, we reveal the secret to controlling water meal in your pond or lake in Charlotte NC Asheville NC Greenville SC Spartanburg SC.
Water meal is one of the smallest aquatic plants on earth and multiplies from a speck into billions of plants covering your entire pond in just weeks. Stealing oxygen from the water, this noxious aquatic plant has been responsible for fish kills, collapsed ecosystems, and beautiful views instantly changed into swamp pits.
Water meal is common in North and South Carolina. Take for instance Montebello, an HOA in Greenville SC who partnered with us after suddenly seeing water meal multiplying in one of their retention ponds.
A homeowner with a window view contacted the management company and informed them that the water meal had gotten so bad that it was starting to infect the next pond in their neighborhood. In amazement, they watched as this micro plant reproduced in just days creating green slicks across the second pond.
If they did not find a solution, it clearly was going to take over both ponds and then their 5-acre lake below. Some things in life can wait, but not with water meal. The longer you wait, the more you have and the longer you’ll have it.
Barbara, another Platinum member, found this out the hard way when she purchased a perfect piece of land for her horses and began remodeling her new home that overlooked a gorgeous 3-acre pond. During the walk through before purchasing the property, the water looked beautiful because water meal remains dormant during cold weather.
To her disappointment, she awoke one day in early spring to a green like film of water meal. Not sure what was going on she contacted us to treat the water meal with aquatic herbicides. After numerous treatments, we were finally able to get ahead of the water meal replication and created her a beautiful view again just in time for a family gathering.
So how can you control water meal in your pond or lake?
Harvesting water meal is almost laughable since it is smaller than a pin head and reproduces so quickly. Water meal can stick to the shoreline as the water level drops and re-awaken when water comes back up.
Systemic treatments such as Sonar work in very few ponds since it requires little to no flow of new water. It takes 30 plus days of water meal drinking the herbicide to kill it making it not the best choice most of the time.
With slower results and costing $300-$600 to treat a one-acre pond is it best chosen when killing multiple types of aquatic weeds at the same time. Regardless, it does require a license to apply in North and South Carolina in most ponds and lakes.
Topical treatments such as Clipper are the best solution to water meal. Although they too need a license to apply, an aquatic herbicide applicator can use recipes that include additives to make it stick to the plant or float near the surface to get better exposure times with each treatment. Although a less expensive option than Sonar it can still be expensive product costing $200 for only one pound.
Once a pond has been infected with water meal it is very hard to kill all of it. And be aware it can take numerous treatments of Clipper to get the upper hand. But, even if you drained the pond and refilled it…it still can come back with a vengeance.
A monthly pond management plan is the best way to control the spread of water meal. This insures a watchful eye on pond or lake which can quickly identify & treat any noxious aquatic plants on a monthly basis. This method is sure to save the pond owner money, remove their frustration and create a healthy and beautiful ecosystem for generations to enjoy.
How has your pond or lake been able to get rid of water meal?
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